Monthly Archives: September 2003

… which means I’ll have to do some actual newspapering for the next eight hours or so (Thanks, CCI, you bring so much meaning to my life). After that I’ll probably need major couch time, so this could be the last update till tomorrow.

Here’s a guy who is the only blogger covering the media in my hometown, a metro area of some 300,000 (Bill will know precisely, he’s good about that stuff). His current blog archives date to January 2002, so plenty of Peorians have had a chance to check out his site; the local media have...

Tequila Mockingbird is at it again. Loved this wonderful aside on her comments page: there must be something in the marketing material that these men interpreted differently. they seem to be under the impression that the 8 minutes represents an entire condensed dating relationship. that would explain why somewhere around the third minute they...

Michelle Nicolosi’s Insert Text Here has a ton of handy clicks. One reason Michelle is one of the coolest people on earth: she is perhaps the only person anywhere who has won a Pulitzer Prize and served as a CCI super user.

… you’re doing nothing waiting for the pagination system to come back up? Downtime isn’t industry-specific enough. (Brought to you by the 327th annoying CCI breakdown.) It gets worse: CCI’s down and they don’t know how to bring it back up. Should be a real fun afternoon (first print deadline in five hours). Final...

The L.A. Times has his cellphone number, as does NPR. I, however, do not. A couple minutes ago I fielded the second inquiry from a radio producer trying to get Gapay on the air. I’m flattered by the attention, folks, but alas I have no info on the guy. If anybody has any ideas...

The Oakland Raiders staged a stunning comeback yesterday, scoring two touchdowns in the final six minutes and winning in overtime. Here’s Craig Lancaster’s story. And now, for the excerpts: With 5:59 left in the fourth quarter Sunday, the Raiders were staring down the barrel of yet another loss. Jerry Rice stared down his teammates...

… the Detroit Tigers won today, allowing them to avoid matching the Mets’ record for losingest season. If it’d been me, I’d have thrown a couple of those last games to break the record. At least they notice you if you’re the all-time worst, but nobody remembers the team that comes in next-to-last.